Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Corniculum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CORNIC'ULUM. Diminutive of CORNU, any small horn; but, in a more special sense, an ornament bestowed upon meritorious soldiers by their commanding officer, as a mark of distinction (Liv. x. 44.), supposed to have been in the form of a horn, and worn upon the helmet, either as a support for the crest, like the left-hand figure in the engraving (Corniculum/1.1) annexed, from a bas-relief; or affixed to the sides, like the one on the right, from a painting at Pompeii.

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  Corniculum/1.1